Sovereignty [addendum] Sovereignty is one of the central organizing concepts of modern Western political thought. To say that it is a concept central to the organization of political thought is not to say that it is one of the concepts on which...

Sovereignty means the right to own and control some area of the world. It has, nowadays, nothing to do with monarchy, which might seem to be implied by the connotation of sovereign, but entirely refers to the idea of independent rule by a country or...

Sovereignty Analysis of "sovereignty" brings one into contact with nearly all the major problems in political philosophy. At least seven related concepts may be distinguished: (1) A person or an institution may be said to be sovereign if...

Sovereignty is the exclusive right to complete control over an area of governance, people, or oneself. A sovereign is the supreme lawmaking authority, subject to no other. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in Book III, Chapter III of his 1763 treatise Of the...

How are sovereignty and culture connected? The relations between the two terms are multiple and complex, and any political movement identifying itself with the Left does well to think broadly, as well as specifically, about the links between them. We can only do...

INTRODUCTION I. HISTORICAL MODELS OF SOVEREIGNTY--AND THEIR LIMITATIONS A. Historical Models as Metaphors 1. Hobbesian sovereignty 2. Lockean sovereignty B. The Metaphor Breaks Down: International Humanitarian Law C. Limitations of Old Sovereignty Under Emergent Conditions II. GLOBALIZATION AND RELATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY A. Globalization as an...

European Union officials and diplomats in Belgium expect a U.N. mediator to recommend limited sovereignty for Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo that could eventually lead to full independence for the region, a U.N. protectorate since 1999.Mediator Martti Ahtisaari's proposal, expected soon after Serbian elections Sunday,...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki walked a fine line Sunday: confronting his American backers over what he sees as violations of Iraq's sovereignty while stressing that his relations are rock solid with the country on whose support he still relies."Success is shared," he said in...